A minor oddity: I looked this up once in a standard edition of Heine, and the title there was simply "Die Grenadier'". However, it is always called "Die Beiden Grenadiere".

Near the end, the tune briefly quotes the Marsellaise. My highschool music textbook calls that "typically romantic".

So a dictator who inherited a state from a revolution with international pretensions had, for a while, the use of a liberal fellow traveler.

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